Volume 7 Chapter 13 - Most Successful Business Gathering (1/2)

After watching Count Birmingham enter his Magic Sedan from the window, Kennard took the report in his hand and went down two always, coming to this room that the City Lord Manor had specially prepared for the organizing committee of the conference.

When he opened the very normal looking doors, he saw Xu Yi sitting at a large table with his head down, looking over some documents.

Xu Yi’s new secretary, the female elf Cindy from the Night Song Tribe was on the side with some other documents in her hands.

“Did you send off the people of the Yash Duchy?” Xu Yi didn’t even look up as he asked this.

“Un, Count Birmingham just left.” Kennard replied before coming over to hand the documents over, “He said that he will talk to Duke Yash after he gets back and will give sir chairman an answer that you will be satisfied with.”

“It seems like he’s not that dumb.” Xu Yi looked up with a faint smile, “To be honest, I said that I would retain the right to retaliate against the Yash Duchy purely just to scare them. The Yash Duchy is separated from us by several other countries, so going that far to attack them doesn’t benefit us at all.”

“I understand.” Kennard also revealed a smile, “This time it’s just to give a warning to the people who have ideas towards us. But sir chairman, through this matter, I feel that we should focus on something. After receiving this report, I’ve made some rough statistics. In the last five years, the number of researchers who have resigned has clearly increased. Just last year, there were thirty seven researchers who resigned.”

“How many researchers does the magic research facility have?” Xu Yi asked.

“A total of one thousand three hundred and seventy four.” Kennard replied.

“Then the proportion of these thirty seven isn’t that high.” Xu Yi raised his hand to cut Kennard off, “I know what you want to say. You’re worried about the serious situation of our company losing researchers, but in reality, this outflow isn’t that serious, it’s actually very small. It even…..makes me very disappointed because those other countries and companies still don’t see the true specialty of the magic machine industry, so they don’t attach importance to the very precious research staff of our company.”

“No, they definitely attach importance or they wouldn’t have tried to kidnap our researcher this time.” Kennard refuted.

“Alright, even if they do put importance on it, it isn’t enough.” Xu Yi touched his chin as he thought for a bit before giving a nod, “Un, at the conference over the next few days, I have to emphasize these things.”

Kennard didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, “Sir chairman, you’re reminding others companies to kidnap our researchers?”

“No, of course that’s impossible.” Xu Yi thought about it before turning to Cindy, “Cindy, record this. Let the magic research facility work with the military magic machine development center to create a sharper magic signal device and give one to each researcher. I want to guarantee that if our company’s researchers encounter any problems, they will be able to report as soon as possible so we can organize a rescue as soon as possible.”

“Yes.” Cindy took out her notebook and wrote down his exact orders without missing a word.

“Other than this, Kennard……as for the plan to distribute our company’s guards, you have to hurry up. This time Winnie and Joshua were lucky that there was an equipped Magic Airship that was passing by that received their rescue signal, which allowed us to save them on time. If it was somewhere else, they might not have been this lucky and we would have never seen them again.”

“Un……this is indeed a big problem.” Kennard knitted his brows to think for a bit before saying in a difficult voice, “But sir chairman, we can send the guards to patrol in the countries that we are cooperating with, but for the rather large countries like the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire, they definitely wouldn’t be willing to accept an army that they can’t control being stationed there.”

“So I want you to count the various countries and regions first, then we can start with a broader plan. Of course…..the best way to solve this is to increase the distance of the magic signal, but this is a problem with our technology and can’t be solved quickly…..” Xu Yi thought about it and could only wave his hand, “Forget it, just worry about what you need to do now and we’ll take everything else slowly.”

“Un. Then sir chairman, as for the Yash Kingdom, what are your ideas?” Kennard asked, “What price do you want the Yash kingdom to pay? How should I reply to them?”

“Remember three things.” Xu Yi raised three fingers, “First, I want the Yash Kingdom to come forth with a proper stance. You’re more clear on this than me. Second, as for the exact compensation, separate into a part for Winnie and Joshua and a part for the company. Third, as for how to deal with this in the future, we’ll change our plans based on the situation, there’s no need to rush.”

“Alright.” Kennard nodded as he recorded this.

After telling him this, Xu Yi fell into silence once again.

Kennard patiently waited for a bit before Xu Yi suddenly tapped the table, saying something as if he was asking Kennard, while also seeming like he was talking to himself.

“Tell me…..Even a small duchy like the Yash Duchy dares to take risks like this. In this conference, should I be a bit more generous……”